Francis Geary

Francis Geary (1752-1776) was an officer of the British Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Francis Geary was born in Great Bookham in Surrey, Great Britain, in 1752, and was educated at the Balliol College in Oxford. In 1773 he was made a cornet in a regiment of light dragoons, and he was sent to New York in 1776. In December 1776, Geary dispatched a force of British dragoons to search for cached American military supplies during the American Revolutionary War in East Amwell Township, New Jersey. The 16th Queen's Light Dragoons were ambushed by John Schenck's American militia and Geary fell dead with a musketball to the forehead.